The overt nuclearisation of South Asia in 1998 and the development of operational nuclear capabilities by both India and Pakistan helped restore the strategic balance between the two countries. The... Read more

A Symposium on Literature and History in Persianate South Asia 15 May 2015, Syndicate Room, St. Antony’s College, Oxford There will be seven presentations from UK-based and international scholars (... Read more

Zahid Hussain is an award-winning journalist and writer, a senior editor with Newsline, a columnist for Dawn and a correspondent for The Times of London, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal, and... Read more

Dying for Ideas explores the limit-situation in which philosophers find themselves when the only means of persuasion they can use is their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their death.... Read more

Ali Jafar Zaidi’s recently published political autobiography in Urdu presents a people’s perspective on the history of Pakistan. It is a fascinating tale of how his personal life and political... Read more

"The Prisoner sizzles along. It’s got both pace and authority. A tremendous debut novel. You’ll want to finish it in one sitting.’’ Owen Bennett-Jones Omar Shahid Hamid has served with the Karachi... Read more

In the complex arena of Indian politics familiar democratic forms sometimes take on new meanings. The Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Lectures for 2013 will be focused on the transformation of... Read more